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Newcastle , United Kingdom
This is a place where i get to share my experience and ideas, through the journey of university in a new country, studying Product Design Engineering. To know more about me and this blog check out the welcome post

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

INTERACTION FOLLY

An Interaction Folly, is a product which appears to serve a purpose but does not or serves an opposite purpose while interacting with the user. An interaction folly can be self defeating, funny and/or terminating.
Our group was given a task to design our own interaction folly, the example we were given to get us started was the self defeating box. This box has a switch, when this switch is pushed, an object pops out of the box and switches off the switch. This product appears to do something but in reality serves no purpose.

Our group came up with several ideas, narrowed down to a few that were the best and we combine those to come up with one final product.

Initial Ideas
  • Run for door - Ahana
    Electrocuting keyboard - Sam
    Shutting door - Karl

    Suffocating bed - Ghodrat
    Breakable alarm clock - Ben   
Story Boards for initial ideas
Run for door
-Ghodrat Rostami

-Ben Collin

-Ahana Kothari

-Sam Mitchell

in the lecture we combined all the ideas into 3 more concepts:
One use keyboard (button pressed once)
Alarm clock which goes off when senses movement and doesn't turn off till no movement for 2 mins (etc.)
Keyboard away from door, needed to unlock door with electrocution.
Then Each of us produced a design of the said clock.
include in the design; all round sensor, clock, buttons (optional), make it aesthetically pleasing.

DESIGN MOOD BOARDS
- Ben

- Ben

- Ben

- Sam

- Ahana

SKETCHES



 - Ben

CAD DRAWINGS


 (FINAL)


- Sam

Final Story Board
-Ahana






Tuesday, 3 March 2015

SMALL CLEVER MACHINE



This is an ongoing project, where we are supposed to convert rotary motion to linear motion and allow it to perform a simple task. for example, a machine that turns the pages of a book with linear motion but by the turn of a handle.
This design process, started with idea formulation and then the group used idea selection methods in order choose the final design. Out of a group of 4 each member listed three ideas, and then these ideas were critically analysed based no the design criteria, and finally the idea with the highest score was chosen. In this case it was my idea of a bottle top opener. Collectively as a group we improved the design, ordered the required parts and created a CAD model using Solidworks.  The images below show the sketches and CAD drawings of the machine. (click image to enlarge)
BASIC DEIGN CONCEPTS

The basic idea is to turn a handle which turns gears which push out racks in a linear motion, unscrewing the top of the bottle.






INTEGRATED/DETAILED FINAL DESIGN


An image of the final  and working machine will be uploaded once our group has finished building it.
- Ahana Kothari


CLOCKWORKS



After the December break, I was back to work. This time we were instructed to build a track out of wood and plastic, which started at 3 cm and ended at 3 cm height. This tracks aim was to support a pin pong ball from the start to the finish. This might make you think, 'how is this related to product deign engineering?' This exercise allows us to understand the small projects a designer must perform in order to present their capabilities to their client. Each group's track had a specific theme, ours was space therefore our team name was interstellar. Another condition that we had to follow that we could only use air pressure as an energy form which is why we use hair dryers. This project required time and effort and the track did work but sometimes it did not which goes on to show that products can be unpredictable. However a designer must test the product to ensure that it works and performs the required action every time.

Below are some sketches of the track design, Along with images and videos.

OVERVIEW OF THE TRACK


FRONT VIEW

TOP VIEW




SOLAR SYSTEM
           


                                                                      ROCKET                                                                        

 BLACK HOLE


                                                              LAUNCH PAD

                               Models by: Ellie, Ahana, Will, Eugene, Emma

This video shows a test run where the track did work.

The link below will take you the video of the final test where all the groups tracks were connected together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgBcU4flOE&feature=youtu.be

This was an interesting project, it forced us to do before thinking.
- Ahana Kothari